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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200304-07
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          PACKAGE : monkeyd
          SUMMARY :
             DATE : 2003-04-28 08:43 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =snort-0.6.2
              CVE :

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- From advisory:

"A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Monkey's handling of forms
submitted with the POST request method.  The unchecked buffer lies in the
PostMethod() procedure."

Read the full advisory at: 
https://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105094204204166&w=2

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-www/monkeyd upgrade to monkeyd-0.6.3 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge monkeyd
emerge clean